punch above your weight

But as Norwich and, last season, Blackpool have shown, punching above your weight is not impossible."

Whereas our traditional mechanism such as the control of financial levers or technology once afforded us that famous "punch above your weight" today we are facing a new reality of limitation.

This is like the last days of a failing relationship, you've been punching above your weight with the girl, you always knew that, but there was just something about you that she really liked.